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Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 15th November 2026 (awful.systems)

submitted 5 days ago by BlueMonday1984@awful.systems to c/techtakes@awful.systems

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(I get the feeling we're close to this bubble's end.)

Anyways, welcome to the Stubsack, your first port of call for learning fresh Awful you’ll near-instantly regret.

Any awful.systems sub may be subsneered in this subthread, techtakes or no.

If your sneer seems higher quality than you thought, feel free to cut’n’paste it into its own post — there’s no quota for posting and the bar really isn’t that high.

The post Xitter web has spawned soo many “esoteric” right wing freaks, but there’s no appropriate sneer-space for them. I’m talking redscare-ish, reality challenged “culture critics” who write about everything but understand nothing. I’m talking about reply-guys who make the same 6 tweets about the same 3 subjects. They’re inescapable at this point, yet I don’t see them mocked (as much as they should be)

Like, there was one dude a while back who insisted that women couldn’t be surgeons because they didn’t believe in the moon or in stars? I think each and every one of these guys is uniquely fucked up and if I can’t escape them, I would love to sneer at them.

(Credit and/or blame to David Gerard for starting this.)

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[–] bitofhope@awful.systems 11 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (2 children)

Let me introduce another related concept: olfactory zombies. Imagine if there are people who can't actually smell farts. These O-zombies physiologically have the nerves to detect the volatile chemicals responsible for fart smell, but they don't actually feel the experience of smelling a fart. They may react to farts in the same way as non-O-zombies who smell a fart, but it's a non-conscious programmed response and they are not aware of how it feels to actually smell a fart.

There's no reason not to assume O-zombies are real. There's also no reason not to assume there's a good reason to care even if they were.

[–] o7___o7@awful.systems 5 points 1 day ago (1 children)

You better believe that I'm appropriating this for the next time some dweeb comes at me with p-zombies

[–] bitofhope@awful.systems 4 points 1 day ago

I formally dedicate this to public domain wherever possible, CC0 where not possible and heartily discourage attribution and royalties.